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Before "Dreamgirls," this musical drama recalled the rise of a Supremes-like girl group from the Harlem ghetto to superstardom. While the group Sister and The Sisters pursues fame and fortune, their relationships fracture when Sister (Lonette McKee) turns to drugs and Sparkle (Irene Cara) cultivates a relationship with their manager (Philip Michael Thomas). Dwan Smith, Dorian Harewood also star; features a score by Curtis Mayfield. 98 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital mono.
Before Dreamgirls hit cineplexes in 2006, there was Sparkle. Released in 1976, the low-budget movie (which is also loosely based on the story of Diana Ross and the Supremes) achieved somewhat of a cult following among fans that enjoy a good cry along with their kitsch. Sparkle tells the rags-to-riches (and rags again, for some of the characters) tale of three sisters with gorgeous voices. There's Sister (Lonette McKee), Sparkle (Irene Cara, Fame), and Delores (Dwan Smith), who team up with a couple of players (including a very young Philip Michael Thomas, pre-Miami Vice) to form a singing group. Because the men add little oomph to the outfit, the quintet becomes an all-girl trio and is renamed the redundant (and hysterical) Sister and the Sisters. But because this movie is called Sparkle and not Sister, we know that Irene Cara's character is the one to watch. Cara is a joy to listen to when she unleashes her powerful pipes. And as the much put-upon Sister, McKee is convincing and earns the viewer's sympathy. Set in the 1950's, the movie tackles racism, sexism, jealousy, and both chemical and physical abuse. While it is overly dramatic and liberally serves up sloppy doses of soap opera clichés, the film also is highly watchable because of its over-the-top campiness. --Jae-Ha Kim
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Molly Ringwald established herself as the teen queen of the '80s in this fresh comedy. The movie is a day in the life of Samantha, whose 16th birthday is turning out to be anything but sweet. All the traumas of teendom come down on one long day, which sees Samantha surrounded by dithery relatives, mooning over a high school hunk, and pursued by a sawed-off Lothario. Sixteen Candles marked the directing debut of John Hughes, and its goofy energy displayed a promising talent with a great ear for high school lingo ... a promise neglected since Hughes became, after Home Alone, a one-man entertainment industry. There are some pretty crass moments (Why the stereotype of the foreign-exchange student from Asia?), but Ringwald's steady appeal smoothes over the rough spots. As the pubescent, self-styled lady-killer, Anthony Michael Hall turns in a hilarious portrait of a young swinger; he and Ringwald would reteam with Hughes for The Breakfast Club, another key teen picture of the decade. --Robert Horton
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As premises for preteen flicks go, the identity swap went flat way back when, post-Freaky Friday. Throw in a threesome of pinup-worthy actors, a sport that lends itself to rock-song spiked footage, and a sprinkling of old-fashioned rebelliousness, though, and suddenly the bubbles are back. Motocrossed kicks up a gender-bending mess as cheerleader Andrea (Alana Austin) lops off her golden locks to enter a motocross race as her brother, Andrew, who's injured and can't compete. Mom's complicit, but if Dad, who clearly hasn't screened Yentl in a while, finds out, it's yike-a-roo. Complicating matters and upping race-day tummy rumbling is the crush Andi develops on one of her hoodwinked competitors. In the end--guess what--girls rule, but this movie made for Disney TV manages to ride into the sunset without its predictability flattening what's essentially 90 minutes of frothy, wide-eyed fun. --Tammy La Gorce
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It doesn't take long to see that Temple Grandin, the main character in this eponymous HBO movie, is, well, different--she (in the person of Claire Danes, who plays her) tells us before the credits start that she's "not like other people." But "different" is not "less." Indeed, Grandin, who is now in her 60s, has accomplished a good deal more than a great many "normal" folks, let alone others afflicted with the autism that Grandin overcame on her way to earning a doctorate and becoming a bestselling author and a pioneer in the humane treatment of livestock. It wasn't easy. The doctor who diagnosed her at age 4 said she'd never talk and would have to be institutionalized. Only through the dogged efforts of her mother (Julia Ormond), who was told that "lack of bonding" with her child might have caused the autism, did Grandin learn to speak; to go to high school, college, and grad school; and to become a highly productive scientist, enduring the cruel taunts of her classmates and the resistance of many of the adults in her life (most of whom are shown as either narrow-minded prigs or macho, chauvinist jerks). Her lack of social skills and sometimes violent reactions to the overstimulation in her environment made it tough to fit in, to say the least. Danes, who is in nearly every scene of director Mick Jackson's film, is remarkable, embodying Grandin's various idiosyncrasies (such as talking, too loud, too fast, and too much) without resorting to caricature. Jackson does a marvelous job of depicting not only her actual accomplishments (among other things, she took the "squeeze machine" created to "gentle" upset cattle and adapted it for herself, using it to replace the hugs she never got as a child; later on, she revolutionized the systems used to prepare cows for slaughter, as well as the design of the slaughterhouses themselves), but also her more abstract talents, especially the extraordinary visual acuity that enables her to remember virtually everything she's ever seen. This is mostly Danes's film, but the whole cast is top-notch, especially Ormond, Catherine O'Hara as Temple's aunt, and David Strathairn as one of the few teachers who saw Grandin's potential. Captivating, compelling, and thoroughly entertaining, Temple Grandin is highly recommended. --Sam Graham
Claire Danes gives a powerful, Emmy-winning performance in the role of Temple Grandin, the young, high-functioning autistic woman who faces misunderstanding and prejudice throughout her youth. Even as she obtains a master's degree in animal science from Arizona State University in 1975, Grandin encounters resistance to her pioneering ideas about treating animals led to slaughter in a more humane fashion. David Strathairn, Julia Ormond, and Catherina O'Hara co-star. 109 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; "making of" documentary; audio commentary.
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True Grit
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A 14-year-old girl needs a man with "true grit" to help her bring in the fugitive who killed her father. That she settles on Rooster Cogburn--a one-eyed, booze-soaked, potbellied U.S. marshal on the downward curve of his career in law enforcement--is the glorious springboard for all versions of True Grit: the Charles Portis novel, the 1969 western that won an Oscar for John Wayne, and the 2010 Coen brothers adaptation. The Coens have some mighty shoes to fill in their version, and their choice for the eye-patch is Jeff Bridges, who growls his way through an understated take on Rooster. Matt Damon plays LaBoeuf, the Texas Ranger who joins the hunt; Josh Brolin is the scurvy killer; and Barry Pepper is the leader of the outlaw gang. Working as usual with cinematographer Roger Deakins, the Coens exhibit their clear, crisp view of western places, thrillingly creating new takes on recognizable vistas such as the frontier town, the snowy forest, and the isolated cabin at night. The Coens revel in the incredibly ornate dialogue, which allows their sardonic attitude to bleed into the material--young actress Hailee Steinfeld doesn't seem at all fazed by the language, which may be a key reason she got the job as heroine Mattie Ross. While True Grit doesn't have the heft of the best films in the Coens' arsenal (there's something very formal and even a wee bit academic about their stroll through this familiar text), they do create a pleasant sense of a good yarn, retold around the campfire for the umpteenth time. --Robert Horton
Joel and Ethan Coen's filming of the Charles Portis frontier novel follows no-nonsense 14-year-old Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) as she seeks the outlaw who gunned down her father. Joining Mattie on her perilous quest--for duty, or for the reward money, or both--are hard-drinking, one-eyed marshal Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) and a Texas Ranger named LaBoeuf (Matt Damon). Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper also star. 110 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, DVS, French Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; featurettes.
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Something Borrowed
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Chick-lit lovers, and those who love them, will flock to Something Borrowed, a frothy adaptation of Emily Giffin's bestselling novel. Something Borrowed itself borrows some of the best bits from earlier romantic comedies like When Harry Met Sallyâ¦, 27 Dresses, and Sex and the City. Though Kate Hudson is the ostensible Big Star here, it's Ginnifer Goodwin (Big Love, He's Just Not That into You) who finally comes into her own as a winsome leading lady. The plot is fairly simple: Rachel (Goodwin) harbors secret feelings for Dex (Colin Egglesfield), the fiancé of her best friend, Darcy (Hudson). Along for the ride, and acting as a sort of stage manager/narrator à la Our Town, is Ethan (John Krasinski), who just may be harboring some secret longings of his own. Will the right boys end up with the right girls? Well, Something Borrowed is one of those comfy films in which the viewer knows who's right for whom long before the characters do. And because of the light, easy direction of Luke Greenfield (whose previous works are mostly TV movies and series), and the sparky chemistry among the stars, Something Borrowed ends up delivering a delicious snack even more satisfying than the sum of its yummy parts. Krasinski, Egglesfield, and especially Goodwin shine in this ensemble, and fans of modern love stories--with a twist--will want to hold on to Something Borrowed. --A.T. Hurley
Bittersweet romantic comedy, based on the best-seller by Emily Giffin, tackles the complexities of love, friendship, loyalty, and fidelity. Successful Manhattan lawyer Rachel (Ginnifer Goodwin) finds her life turned upside down when she begins an affair with Dex (Colin Egglesfield), the man she's had a crush on for years, and must keep it a secret from Darcy (Kate Hudson), her best friend who also happens to be Dex's fiancee. John Krasinski also stars. 112 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1, French Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English (SDH), Spanish, French; deleted scenes.
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Jacob & Esau - Two Brothers at War
Genesis 25:19-34
Jacob & Esau
We gather together today in the wake of the terrible terrorist attacks in London - violence that I suspect has left none of us unaffected.
Tony Blair said, “They will never succeed in destroying what we hold dear†, and it's hard not to admire his resilience, even though we recognise, I think, that the root of the
problem is not an anonymous ‘they’ who simply want to destroy all that we hold dear, and more than there is an axis of evil that simply wants to destroy all things
democratic.
In our world at present there are vast numbers of people who feel, rightly or wrongly, that they area at war with the West. And, rightly or wrongly, a goodly number of these
people feel that this sort of attack is the most effective means they have of waging war.
This attack was not simply the result of mindless violence or religious fanaticism. It was our invasion of Iraq (and Afghanistan) and the Israeli occupation of Palestine that
gave rise to this attack. It was the result of the foreign policy of the US, Brittain and Australia.
Does this mean that we ought to change our foreign policy? Not necessarily. Not if these actions were right and proper. Maybe this is all just a part of the price we have to
pay for doing the right thing. And yet this ongoing war must prompt us to ask again whether we really are doing the right thing, and whether we ever should have invaded
those countries in the first place.
It is against backdrop of escalating world violence that we look at the ancient Biblical story of Jacob and Esau this morning - a story that, I will warn you now, will give us no
guidance whatsoever as to how to solve these issues of global conflict.
Why should we look at it then? Well … partly because it too is a story of conflict, and so it reminds us of the fact that conflict has always been a part of the history of God’s
dealings with our world. And also because it is a story about God’s promises, and a reminder that God holds true to His promises despite the conflict.
Now, having stolen the thunder from my sermon already, let me encourage you to stay with me nonetheless, as we may yet find some more surprises in the passage.
Our story today from Genesis chapter 25 picks up after the death of Abraham and focuses on Abraham's younger son, Isaac, and Isaac’s wife, Rebekah. Isaac’s wife, like
Isaac’s mother before her, is apparently cursed with barrenness!
It is amazing how many of the great women in the Bible struggled to have children! The exception of course is Mary, the mother of Jesus, who started having children much
earlier than she intended. Rebekah though, like her mother-in-law Sarah, like Hannah the mother of Samuel, like Elizabeth the mother of John the Baptist, struggled with the
fact that they could not naturally fall pregnant.
So Isaac prays. We suspect that Rebekah prayed too. God intervenes, and Rebekah falls pregnant, and yet we are told that her pregnancy is a difficult one.
Now we might have been better served today if we’d had one of our girls preaching on this text, as I’m really not the most appropriate person to explore this any further. Let
me though make one theological (rather than gynaecological) observation - that the fact that you are God’s person, doing God’s will, even as a result of God’s miraculous
intervention, doesn’t mean that the process will be easy. Indeed, the promises of God often bring with them great pain as well as great blessing.
As Rebekah struggled through her pregnancy, so she struggled with her birth. Strengthening her though in her pain was a word that she apparently got directly from God -
that her struggle was part of a broader conflict that was already taking place within her womb - one that was going to play itself out in the lives of her children and indeed
through generations to come!
Jacob and Esau were battling within the womb. When Esau emerges from the womb, Jacob already has a hold of him. As they grow up, they are in constant conflict, as the
descendents of Jacob and Esau are to this day! When will it all end? This was no doubt Rebekah’s cry, and a prophetic lament that would echoe through the succeeding
generations.
Now I don’t know whether any of you ever saw that comedy movie called ‘Twins’ with Arnold Schwarznegger and Danny De Vito, where the pair supposedly were twins.
Jacob and Esau are a bit like that. All the testosterone seems to go to Esau!
This is clear enough from the birth itself. Esau emerges from the womb covered in hair! To no one’s surprise he grows up to be a great hunter, an outdoors man, captain of
the local rugby team and, I suspect, an accomplished pugilist. Jacob, on the other hand, were are told was a quiet man and a ‘dweller in tents’. This means that he stuck
close to his mum. He was good at cooking, needlework, and helping out around the house.
Was he gay? Well … they didn’t use labels like that in those days. What we do know is that Jacob was clever and that he was ambitious, and that he was very much his
mummy’s boy, whereas Esau was his dad’s favourite.
What sort of parents are these, who show partiality and favouritism to one child over the other? What sort of family is this, with two warring brothers - one strong and hairy
and the other smooth and smart? This is a real family! These are real parents! Perhaps they are your parents! This is not to say that your mum really loved your little sister
more than she did you, but perhaps she did!
“Now look here, son, it’s not that I don’t want to turn up to watch any of your fights . It’s just not my sort of thing. Look how well your brother is doing with his studies! Don’t
you think you’d be a little better off, modelling yourself a bit more on him ..?â€
Family dynamics tend to be very subtle and hard to understand, let alone untangle. Back in those days, before the word dysfunctional found its way into the Hebrew
dictionary, they spelt it out in simple terms: Isaac loved Esau, but Rebekah loved Jacob.
And just as is always the case in family breakdown, the real crunch-time came over something as trivial as a bowl of stew!
Esau is famished, having been working all day in the field. He comes home and smells the red stew that his brother has been cooking on the stove. Esau says, “give me
some of that red stuffâ€. Jacob says, “It’s not ‘red stuff’. It’s boeuf bourguignon, and you can’t have any.†“But why notâ€, says Esau, “I’m starving!†“OKâ€, says Jacob, “I’ll tell
you what. You give me your birthright, make me heir to the family fortune, sign over all your inheritance to me, make me the older brother - first-born in the family, etc., etc.,
and I’ll give you a small bowlful.†And Esau says, “Yeah, OK!†And so he despises his birthright.
There endeth the reading, but not the story of the battle between the brothers. Indeed, the brothers continue to war with each other today in roughly the same area of land as
they did way back then. The weaponry and the rhetoric have both become more sophisticated, but underneath it all we still have two brothers who continue to struggle.
That’s not to say that today’s reading gives us any clues as to how we should untangle the problem. As I warned you at the outset, this is a story that gives us no guidance
whatsoever as to how we should resolve modern conflicts, though I suppose we could take as a morale to the story, “never make any important decisions when you're
hungryâ€.
Really though, that is not what this story is about, is it? It’s not a lesson in how we can live more prudently, any more than it is primarily a story about dysfunctional families.
Ultimately this is a chapter in a lager story, where the key character is God and where the focus of the story is God’s promise - the promise He made to Abraham, Isaac’s
father, that is being worked out through Jacob and Esau, and perhaps despite Jacob and Esau!
It is the promise of God that is working itself out in the lives of Jacob and Esau, and in this case it is a promise that involves a subversion of the normal social order.
Here as elsewhere in the Biblical drama, God is in the process of turning things upside-down. The first are being moved to the back and the last are coming first. The older
brother, who should have been set up for life as the inheritor of the estate and new Lord of the Manor is finding himself dispossessed by that cunning little nancy-boy that he
still can’t believe is really his brother.
This cannot happen! This is not simply a family matter. This cuts away at the basic social fabric of Ancient Near Eastern society. Through these actions, the whole social
order is potentially thrown into confusion. How can it be that the older will serve the younger? This is not the way things are supposed to work!
Ancient Near Eastern society might not have been the easiest culture in the world to live in, but at least everybody knew their place. Men did the work and made the
decisions. Women stayed at home and did their thing. Older brothers knew that the responsibilities of their fathers would ultimately be passed on to them, and younger
brothers and sisters knew that the way to secure a good future for themselves involved keeping in the good books of your oldest brother.
But here it is all being turned upside-down. “God is bringing down the mighty from their thrones and lifting up the lowly“, as Mary would later say. “He is filling the hungry with
good things, but the rich He is sending empty away!â€
And it’s not because Jacob is a great guy - a man of prayer and compassion, a man after God’s own heart. No, Jacob is a heel (hence the name). But God remains true to
His promises, despite the morally dubious character of some of his children.
Now it’s easy for us to find this story amusing of course when it’s all at a distance, but the truth is, when we look at our world climate today, I think we are starting to find
ourselves in the position of the older brother.
We middle-class people of Australia are part of a privileged class in today’s world. We have inherited much in this country that we did not work for. We enjoy a level of
wealth and ease that is completely alien to the people of Iraq, or so many people within the African nations. We have taken our level of comfort and security for granted, and
now we turn around and we see little Jacob grabbing at our heel!
This is not to say that acts of terrorism that disrupt our world are a part of God’s work, but it is to say that the Lord does not promise us stability while he fulfils His
promises. Indeed, He has never promised stability while He fulfils His promises. Indeed, according to Jesus, earthly security is not only not on offer to his disciples, it is not
an option!
So if we cannot expect God to keep us cosy in this world, what can we expect?
We can expect God to be true to His promises. We can expect the Kingdom!
This is indeed the ultimate promise of God - the promise that was being worked out through Abraham, Isaac and Jacob - a promise that one day all the world would be
blessed through that descendent of Abraham, Jesus, when He comes in his glory to usher in the new world.
That is the promise that lies behind our story today, and it is the promise that we still cling to as we live out our part in that same story - that the day will indeed come ‘when
the earth shall be as full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea‘. That the ‘lion and the lamb will lie down’ , that ‘every tear ultimately will be wiped away’ in
that new world ‘where death, the final enemy will itself be destroyed‘.
This is the Biblical hope. This is the promise of God. This is the thread that runs through these ancient Scriptures, connects us back to these people of old, and which
points us forward in hope to a new tomorrow. It’s not a hope of short-term stability. It is a promise of a new world.
So how do we deal with the problems of violence that we face in our world today?
Well … we do our best to do what is right! We act in love and in justice, and we live with the consequences of wherever love and justice take us.
And we recognise that whatever stance we take, there will always be conflict, as conflict has always been a part of God’s dealings with our world. And so we put our hope in
the promise of God, that one day … the Kingdom.
About the Author
Rev. David B. Smith
(the 'Fighting Father')
Parish priest, community worker,
martial arts master, pro boxer, author, father of three
www.fatherdave.org
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The Jonas brothers say they like girls in dresses,so should i go in a dress or just casual to a jonas concert?
well they always say they like girls in dresses, so i might wear a dress, but im not sure incase its too dressy. Or i could go casual in just skinny jeans and a jonas t shirt and a cardigan with some converse or something :s
heeeeeelpp! (: x
casual.
honestly, I think that skinny jeans and a t shirt is hotter than a dress =P
I love skinny jeans. you should wear them to the concert because a dress isn't really what I would wear..it's kinda too dressy up for just having fun.
And yes, i was thinking converse too. That outfit is PERFECT!
good luck!!!
p.s. you're sooooooo lucky to go to their concert
Jury recommends life sentence for 2 Dubose brothers in girls death
A Jacksonville jury deliberated about 45 minutes Friday before recommending life prison sentences for Tajuane and Terrell Dubose in the 2006 murder of 8-year-old DreShawna Davis.
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